Well, let's see I had an 08 I5 SUV, but for a very short time......I really wanted an Alpha, and found out shortly after that the dealer actually had one, but was to lazy to clean the snow off of it, so that I could test drive it. I called the owner and he took back the I5 and I got the Alpha. Loved that truck, but it was to small for me and I needed to step up to the H2.
The H3T is my third H3 technically. I didn't want to spend the extra $$$ for the Alpha package and when I test drove the I5, it seemed to have plenty of power...just don't care for the engine noise, that's all.
Nothing wrong with the truck...it's pretty nice actually!
I just saw my first H3T other than mine the other day....it was a black I5....they are still pretty rare in this area!